Sri Minister: Metres Feet and Sri Capital

sri minister: Once assembled, the steel-and-wire frame should stand 98 metres 320 feet high more than 40 metres 131 feet taller than the current record-holder, according to The Waterloo Record. Organizers said they wanted the tree to help promote ethnic and religious harmony in the Buddhist-majority South Asian island nation. Hundreds of port workers and volunteers were scrambling Tuesday to build the enormous tree on a popular beachside promenade in Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital. This is just to show the world that we can live as one country, one nation, said the former cricket player Arjuna Ranatunga, now Sri Lanka's minister of ports and shipping. In recent years, Sri Lanka's reputation as an inclusive multicultural country has suffered amid complaints by minority Christian and Muslim communities of state-sponsored discrimination, as well as allegations of widespread abuses against minority ethnic Tamils both during and after the country's civil war against Tamil rebels, which ended in 2009. Sri Lanka has issues regarding religion, caste and race, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.